Tag: thucydides
Into the Whirlpool: Is Secession a Solution to Our Woes?
Can a renewed or more explicitly acknowledged federalism keep us from the whirlpool of secession? We should all hope so. But what if we have already been sucked in?
Discipline and Silence
“And when it comes to action, put your trust in discipline and silence; in every kind of warfare they count a lot, and particularly...
Trying to Be Like Them
“It is for you to try to be like them.”
Pericles’ Funeral Oration
I have to admit a problem that I’ve had with Memorial Day. I’ve...
When Your Way of Life is Out of Date
“…your whole way of life is out of date when compared with theirs. And it is just as true in politics as it is...
Swine Flu’s Real Exposure
Claremont, CA. The most haunting, awful scenes in Thucydides’s history of the Pelopponesian war are those describing the Athenian plague.
The plague emerged in the...